propagate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with propagate, each labelled with its topic.

• Oaks propagate slowly, and a woodland that burns twice in a decade may never recover the seedlings it lost.

  Environment

• Fruit flies propagate the mutation to roughly half their offspring, which is why the laboratory line stays useful for study.

  Science

• Guild families propagated their glassblowing secrets for four centuries, teaching only their own children and never writing anything down.

  Art

• Bakers propagate the same sourdough culture from one batch to the next, and the family starter is now ninety years old.

  Cooking

• Village fiddlers propagate their tunes by ear, each generation learning from the last without a single written note.

  Music

• Researchers ask whether anxious parenting propagates from one generation to the next, or whether children simply react to their own circumstances.

  Psychology

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